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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Insults Calumny

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: To know one's self.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Self Knowledge

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Sun Too Shines

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Man Men Look

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Why Why Not Pupil

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Practice Sound Virtue

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Man Silly Animals

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Friends Man Good Friends

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Wine Drink Like

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Master Slave Being

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes Mad Finger Within

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

~ Diogenes

Diogenes I Am World Citizen
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